The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-30

his eyes, slipped and fell, but made a
desperate clutch with his nnmbed
hands ut the eavestrough. and hung
suspended by that trail support which
might give way any instant beneath
his weight.
Heople in the street below cried out
rs they caught sight of his perilous
position.
''Oh, he'll be down in minute"
"He can't draw himself up, for see,
it's breaking away now"
mo. it holds yet. Can't something
be done for himp"
While they gazed upward. dazed
with horror and feeling the inter help
lessness OF any effort to reach him in
time second lineman appeared on
the roof, sent there, it would seem, TO
assist the other. 1t only required an
instant to take in the situation-the
cracking, swaying eaves-trough, the
desperately gripping hands, the
| CHASTITY, set face of the doomed man,
who swung over that deadly abyss.
Save him! Save him! came up from
the street below.
Only the meaning Of the cry reached
the man on the roof, so loud and
strong was the wind which blew there,
but he answered as if he had heard it:
"Tll try. 'Tain't no difference to me
If It's Steve Brady. Maybe rs we'll
both go down; but reckon we've about
ekil chances"
lie was busy fastening rope to the
nearest chimney as he spoke. 1t was
not long rope. but it would reach be-
yond the edge of the roof, and he
made moose in the end of it, which
he placed around his body beneath the
arms; then taking a coil of wire which
he carried for repairing purposes from
his pouch, he piled it to the rope n
few feet farther up, and dropping upon
hands and knees. made his way to the
caves.
Hold fast, Stcve," he called, en-
couragingly; I'm comm to help We.
Hang on till get turn of the wire
around you-good Lord! man; don't
you wriggle, or you're a gone one in
spite of mew
But in the same breath with the
warning there was Il convulsive effort
on the part of the suspended man, the
parting caves trough slipped from his
rigid fingers, he was topping back
ward, falling into space; the earth, tho
sky, the face of the man above him all |
blending in one chaotic picture before |
his despairing sight, yet he did not |
fall; the arm of John Harmon, who |
had slipped like flash over the edge,
was about him holding him up, while
he adjured:
"Gct a hold, get n hold, for Gods
sake! If you vally your life and mine
keep your wits about you, Steve Brady.
Now, then, climb up the rope. It'll
bear the strain, think, and you can
get on the roof from my shoulders.
Steady; So"
There was n moment of suspense.
The strands of the straining rope were
cutting on the edge of the states, but
the wire which John had piled to il
higher up divided the weight and en-
lbled first the one, then the other to
climb TO the roof. They stood there
painting with exertion, looking into
each others eyes. Then
81 owe my life to YOU" said Brady,
shut ] wish / didn't. | wish I'd
dropped down into the street afore l
owed it to you.
The cause of the enmity between
hemp The usual cauSe--only girl.
Not even a pretty girl as the world saw
Ter, but the one on whom each of these
men had set his heart There was
Of the coquctte in her, or
Use she had not yet learned her own
mind, for she had given encourage
nent to each, or he thought so, which
mounted to the same.
The bitterness of feeling that, out of
common gratitude, he ought TO stand (
'ut of his rivals way, was working in
,teYe Brady. but, with the words on
lis lips. he began to waver and sank
Iown unconscious.
When he came to himself he was i'm
strange place, but it was still John
harmon who was with him and who
lad this to say:
''Now, look here, Steve Brady. don't
on go to fussn' or worritin'i You've
een took with spell, and busted ]
Hood vessel innardly, through strainin.
mt you don't want doctorin' so much
s quiet an peace of mind. That's J